Readily adjustable drapery holder



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READILY ADJUSTABLE DRAPERY HOLDER Filed May 17, 1955 E I I 4 7 49 3/ INVENTOR GERSON MEYER United States Patent Application May 17, 1955, Serial No. 508,972

13 Claims. (CI. 24-86)- .-This invention relates to readily adjustable drapery holders. and has forfor its principal object the provision of a simple, inexpensive drapery holder including a clip secured to move up and down on a vertical rod secured to or forming part of a supporting member resting upon a drapery rail, while carrying a drapery pin, which latter has engagement. with the drapery being hung, preferably at both ends of the pin.

. A further object of the. invention is to provide a spring metal clip particularly suited for use in drapery holders. A further object of the-invention is to provide a holder consisting ofv a drapery pin, a clip, and. a rod on which the clip is readily slidable, in which the compression of the clip. to permit its free movement up and down on the. rod .is. limited to the point of maximum freedom,

thereby. avoiding the delicacy of touching previously required to obtain such setting of the clip.

A still further object of the invention. is to provide a clip made from a strip of sheet material and which may have an integral element for insuring against relative movement of theclip and the pin.

In hanging draperies it frequently occurs that a slight alteration will have to be made, sometimes for the entire drapery, sometimes for a small portion of the width ofthe drapery. The current method is to remove the pin and reinsert this in about the chosen place. The great advantage of the present invention is that the anchoring member and the slide to which it is hooked can be slipped along the horizontal traverse rod or rail and if any alteration is to be made, it is made very simply by adjusting the position of the drapery without altering the relation between the drapery and the pins and without unhooking any anchoring member from its slide. 7

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation. v

Figure 2is a partial rear view.

Figure 3 is a central section through the clip. Fig ure 4.is;a plan of the clip blank. I v

Figure 5 is a mod ificatio'n.

The clip 12 is fast to the drapery pin 10 and therefore forms with it a unit readily slidable up and down on the vertical round rod 11 which is part of an anchoring and supporting member for attachment to a horizontal drapery rail (not shown).

It is my preference that the rod 11 have at its upper end a hook 15 including a straight portion 16 and a downturned end 17. The drapery pin 10 may be of any preferred shape, for example, any of the forms shown in my co-pending application, now Patent No. 2,708,777 issued May 24, 1955. As illustrated, the pin 10 is formed of round wire stock and includes a straight portion 20 joined to the lower hook 21 by the curved portion 22, an offset portion 23, and an upper bowed portion 24 ending with an upper point 25. The pin 10, like the rod 11, is preferably formed from plated tempered spring steel round wire. Both are formed in an appropriate machine but the bend at 22 is formed after assembly with the clip.

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The clip 12 is preferably formed from a strip of resilient metal which may be of uniform width as in Figure 5 or may be as shown in Figure 4. The strip is bent into quadrilateral shape to form a front base 30, a top arm 31, a bottom arm 32 and two rear pieces 35 and 36, one or the other or both of the rear pieces forming a stop to limit movement toward each other of the two arms as they move about their junctions 37 and 38 with the base 30.

The two arms are pierced with holes 40 and 41 of a size to receive freely the anchoring or supporting rod 11 when the arms are pressed together, but to bite the rod when the arms are free to spring apart with the arms 31 and 32 well apart at their free ends. A prong or spur 44 is struck from the upper arm 31 and is bent downward to engage the straight portion 20 of the drapery pin 10 which latter snugly fits an opening 45 in the lower arm and in the opening 46 which is located at the free end of the prong 44 in Figure 4.

While I may fasten the pin 10 to the base of the clip, as indicated at 47 in Figure 5 and omit the prong, I find that the prong alone makes a very satisfactory fastener when used in connection with the lower opening 45. In the modification shown in Figure 5 the rear piece or pieces are each the full width of the metal strip from which the clip is made but the two rear pieces may each be made to form a stop striking against the inside of the opposite arm. To this end I remove half of the width of each rear piece, thus forming a shoulder 48 or 49 and narrow fingers 50 and 51 which cross each other as best seen in Figure l, which shows that each arm makes an obtuse angle with the base but the angles at the ends of the arms are acute, so each finger is normal to the inner surface of the opposite arms which they engage when the resilient rear of the clip is compressed to free the clip from the rod, so the pin 10 may be raised or lowered.

In the modification of Figure 5 the clip strip is all of the same width, having only the holes 40 and 41. The end of the lower arm 60 corresponding to 32 need not be up-turned but may form a stop against which the down-turned end 61 of arm 31 may contact. The drapery pin 10 may be of any of the forms described or may be primarily below the clip, having a pointedend 62 at its bottom and a drapery holding shoulder 63 near its top which may be soldered, welded or otherwise secured to the clip as at 47, generally accompanied by a slight groove or-indentation in the base 30 of the clip.

What I claim is: I 1. A drapery clip to secure a drapery pin in adjusted position on a supporting rod, comprising a single flat strip of-resilient material having a central base,'two arms each making an obtuse angle with the base. andieachperforated to receive the rod, an inwardly bent stop member making an acute angle with one of the arms and striking the inside of the other arm when the ends of the arms away from the base are pressed together to release the grip on the rod, and means for securing the drapery pin to the base in general parallelism with the rod.

2. The clip of claim 1 in which the clip has two additional perforations to receive the drapery pin, and the said means includes a prong struck from the metal strip adjacent one of the two perforations to engage the drapery pin.

3. The clip of claim 2 in which the free end of the prong forms a portion of the margin of one of the additional perforations and locks the clip against longitudinal movement relative to the drapery pin.

4. A piece of resilient metal comprising two opposite slightly diverging flat sides forming arms, a base joining the arms, and an inwardly bent stop portion integral with one arm engaging the other flat side when the arms ere-pressed toward substantial parallelism, the arms each hellilll applioximately centrally a round hole to receive a cylindrical rod, said holes being coaxial when the arms are moved toward parallelism and the stop portion hits inside of the opposite flat side nearer to the basethan the t ee. nd o t efla side which is ck- 5'. The piece of claim 4 in which the piece is a simple strip, of uniform width with the two ends cut away on opposite sides and there are two stop portions, each by a cut-away end, and the stop portions cross each other edgewise and are parallel when looking to-. war he ba e. I

6. An adjustable drapery holder comprising an anchor ing and supporting member for attachment to a drapery rail, said member including a vertical round rod of uniform diameter wire stock, a drapery pin having an offset between two drapery supporting pointed ends, and; a clip formed of a strip of resilient metal bent into snhstantially quadrilateral shape including a base, a pair of diverging arms extending from the base, and a stop member roughly parallel to the base and of a length to engagev the inside surface of the opposite arm when the arms are pressed toward substantial parallelism, said strip having holes therethrough to receive loosely the red when the arms are moved toward parallelism so that the stop member strikes the opposite arm and to grip the rod; when the arms spring outward, and means to secure the clip to the pin with the offset portion at the junction of the base with one arm.

7. The holder of claim 6 in which the strip has an opening proximate the junctions of the base with each of; the respective arms, and a prong forming a portion of said securing means isstruck from the strip in one arm with its free end firmly engaging the pin to lock the, pin, in the proximate opening, thus preventing relative longitudinal movement of the clip and the pin while permitting both the clip and the pin to move as a unit up and down on the rod as the supporting member is hung from the rail, the pin carrying a portion of the drapery engaged by both pointed ends of the pin.

8. The device of claim 4 in which the piece of re silient metal is a strip of uniform width bent into quadrilateral shape, the free end of said stop portion striking the inner face of the opposite arm near the free end of such arm.

9.. A, readily adjustable drapery holder comprising an anchoring member adapted to be supported on a horizontal rail and having a generally vertical portion on which a drapery pin may be adjusted up and down while carrying a portion of the drapery, a drapery pin supon the vertical portion of the anchoring member and having means to secure the drapery to the pin to suspend the drapery, and a clip fast to the pin and having opera le r l e means to m y g ip h member when the resilient means is released, means be ng m va l o. relea h v r as. that th pi may b adjusted p and ow on the generally vertical portion of the anchoring member by amounts varying from. incrementaltoa distance subStantially equal to the length of the vertical portion, said clip having straight arms each making an obtuse angle with the straight portion of the anchoring member, at least one of said arms of the clip having a reversely bent integral extension forming a stop member making an acute angle with said one arm and striking the straight portion of the other arm at about a right angle when the ends of the arms awayfrom. the drapery. pinare pressed together to release the grip on the rod.

10. The holder of" claim 9 in which each arm has an extension, and each extension gradually approaches the anchoring member toward the free end of the extension.

11. The holder of claim 10 in which the angle between each extension and its integral arm is rounded to facilitate pressing the arms together.

12. The device of claim 7 in which the offset portion of the drapery pin limits downward movement of the pin with respect to the clip and the prong prevents upward movement of'the. pin with respect to the clip whereby when the drapery pin is moved downward with re-v speet to the clip and the drapery pin offset strikes the clip the pin and clip are locked together so that they move as a unitup and down on the anchoring and sup? porting member.

13. An adjustable drapery holder comprising an anchoring and supporting memberfor attachment to a drapery rail, said' member including a vertical round rod of uniform diameter wire stock, a drapery pin, and a clip formed of a strip of resilient metal bent into substantially quadrilateral shape including a base, a pairof diverging arms extending from the 'base, and .a stop member roughly parallel to the base and of a "length to engage the inside surface. of the opposite arm when the arms are pressed towardxsubstantial parallelism, said strip having holes therethrough to receive loosely the rod when the arms are moved toward parallelism sov that the stop member strikes the opposite arm, and to grip the rod when the arms spring outward, said drapery. pin having one end pointed, the other end being secured to the base of the clip so as to be substantially integral therewith, the drapery pin having between its ends .a drapery supporting shoulder.

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